The inquiry into Queensland's state-run forensics lab has heard police DNA collection procedures could have affected the viability of samples in Shandee Blackburn's 2013 murder investigation. A ...

Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing hears police demanded retesting, resulting in profile found to match offender Fears crucial evidence was being missed by the government-run forensic lab ...

The government-run lab, a major focus of The Australian’s ­investigative podcast, Shandee’s Story, by award-winning journalist Hedley Thomas, has been ­ordered to ­change expert witness statements ...

John Doherty, who ran Forensic and Scientific Services within Queensland Health between 2019 and 2021, said he had attempted to fix the workplace culture of the DNA analysis lab. Mr Doherty also said ...

The managing scientist at a Queensland DNA lab at the centre of an inquiry has been accused of deliberately misleading police. Managing scientist Cathie Allen faced a second gruelling day of ...

Hundreds of semen samples taken as evidence of sex crimes were not tested for DNA by Queensland's forensics lab, an inquiry into its processes has heard. Processes did not change until five months ...

A state-run laboratory initially refused to test a number of possible samples from Queensland murder and sexual assault cases that later returned ‘full profiles’, a senior police officer has told a ...

A second review into the state’s scandal-plagued DNA lab labelled an extraction method “fatally flawed”, likely resulting in critical evidence for criminal trials being missed. A second Commission of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from QLD News. Followed categories will be added to My News. A second commission of inquiry into the catastrophic bungles at the state-run lab this week heard how ...

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